The National Basketball Association draft was a week ago. As ImmigrationProf blog has highlighted, the NBA has progressively gone universal. The draft reflected this and Satnam Singh turned into the main basketball player from India to be drafted by a NBA group. The Dallas Mavericks chose the 7-foot-2-inch, 19-year-old with the 52nd pick in the draft.

Here are the insights about Satnam Singh. Albeit Canadian-conceived Sim Bhullar turned into the NBA's first player of Indian plunge a year ago, Satnam Singh would be the main player really conceived on the subcontinent to make the alliance.

Satnam Singh was conceived in a town in Punjab with only 700 tenants. They nicknamed him "Chhotu" - Punjab for "Minimal One." There were no ball courts there - his father's wheat homestead is 4 miles from the closest cleared street - so he was sent off to a b-ball institute at age 12.

ESPN reports that three of initial seven players drafted are worldwide players. The Orlando Magic took Mario Hezonja (Croatia) with the fifth pick after the New York Knicks took Kristaps Porzingis (Latvia) at No. 4. The Denver Nuggets made it three universal players when they took Emmanuel Mudiay (Congo) with the seventh choice. The main year there were more global players taken in the main 10 was 2011 (four players). With the 26th pick, the San Antonio Spurs took Nikola Milutinov (Serbia). The Spurs have drafted nine universal players in the most recent 10 years, the most by any group.